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Topic: Music

Length: 2:56
Accent: General American
Gender: Female
Speed: Medium

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Questions

1.Where did she live?

2.What did her father do?

3.What does she think about the musical education she received.

4.How did their singing develop into a community service.

答案

Our Answers for Our Singing

1.Where did she live?
She lived out in the country, somewhere in the mid-west.

2.What did her father do?
She doesn't say exactly, but he worked in education.

3.What does she think about the musical education she received.
She seems to think that her mother provided her with a very good musical education.

4.How did their singing develop into a community service.
They used to sing at funerals for people in their community.

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Transcript for Our Singing

see music has always been very much a part of my life. of our_ of my family life. my mother played the piano and the organ. and she studied_ she was a music major in college and my father played the violin and the the mandolin. and he had a beautiful bass voice and he sang in the men's glee club in college. and then we were always very much involved with the church as we were growing up. because my father had studied to be a minister before he went into education. and uh then my mother was a minster's daughter and of course there wasn't a lot of social life around that part of the country out in the midwest at that time. we sort of lived in what you call a bible belt. so we were brought up_ we had family music sessions around the piano at home. whenever someone felt like having music. my mother would play anything from... from classical she'd would play opera and anything that yaknow that we were interested in hearing. as a matter of fact this was how we got a good education in music just from the different types of music. she would play and explain to us what it was all about. she was very patient. she was a teacher also. so um we um she would have_ taught us to sing parts... so one of us would sing alto or a a yaknow a couple sing alto a couple soprano and uh hehe we would get involved in singing in church yaknow putting on special musical programs. or we'd be sitting in our pew at church and whoever was in charge of the music would call on my sisters and myself to sing a whole verse of a hymn. hehe just harmonize on it. and then one of the music_ amusing aspects of this uh musical ability was the fact that back in those days and out in the country there was very little uh music for funeral services. so whenever there was a funeral and there was no music available we were called out of school_ out of class to come and sing sing music for the funerals hehehe. so we became very adept at just picking up anything whatever we could and doing what we had to do. hehehe but it was a very interesting time. and then it was interesting um in later years when members of the family would die. uh it just seemed to be um sort of symbolic for us all to gather at the church and gather round the piano or the organ and the organist would play anything that favored hymns of whoever happened to be deceased at that time. and everybody gang- gathered round and we would harmonize and just have a jolly time. it was just like we were_ it was a celebration of the life of this person.

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